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Birth Announcements Gone Horribly Wrong

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Birth Announcements Gone Horribly Wrong

When researching girl birth announcements, it quickly became clear I had three thematic options:  pink and white; pink and brown; pink and more pink.  So we went with — hold on to your hats here — pink.   I’d initially had visions of a, um, less pink and more original birth announcement.  You know, something with color!  Humor!  Personality!

But when you’re running on two hours of sleep and have yellow baby poop in your hair…?  A personality-filled birth announcement becomes less of a priority.  I just wanted to get those freakin’ things in the mail.  Bring on the pink!

In my deliriously exhausted state, however, I wondered:  What if if some people were to be completely truthful with their announcements?  I’m guessing they might look something like this:

Announcement-BabyDaddy

Announcement-RhythmMethod

Yeah, maybe pink’s not so bad, after all.

Candy Kirby is the founder of The Laughing Stork and a professional fun-maker who will never stop chasing her lifelong dream: to find the Pomeranian or porn star after whom her parents must have named her. A humor columnist for Disney, Nickelodeon, Scary Mommy, Reductress and Redbook, she also used to be a staff writer for the soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful, where she penned many scripts featuring prolonged heated stares and countless “Who’s the Daddy?” story lines. Candy lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two young kids and three rescue Persian cats, the latter of whom are the real brains behind this operation (so send all complaints to them).

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